Experiments & Disorders at Dixon Place

Curated by Tom Cole & Christen Clifford

Fiction, nonfiction, poetry & performance texts by the most adventurous, cross-genre established & emerging writers.

Featured Writers:

Sini Anderson is an award-winning feminist film maker, producer, and queer/class activist who lives in NYC. In 1994 Sini Anderson and friend Michelle Tea founded Sister Spit and Sister Spits’ Ramblin’ Road Show. After three years of hosting a weekly, all-girl open mic Anderson and Tea decide to take the show on the road. Packing two vans with 12 queer artists they zig zagging across the United States and Canada for six weeks performing 40 shows! The tour was such a hit, they did it again for another 3 years. Sister Spit was signed to Mercury Records and released their first of 3 albums, I Spit On Your Country. In 2000 Sister Spit released their final album, Greatest Spits,  on the radical queer & feminist label, Mr. Lady Records & Videos. Ultimately, Sister Spit would tour with over 50 queer artists and have been wildly credited with creating a queer literary scene that still thrives 20 years later. Anderson was a lead curator and eventually the co-artistic director for The National Queer Arts Festival, she has served as president of the board of directors for The Harvey Milk Institute in SF and  co-chair of the board of directors for The Queer Cultural Center.Her first feature-length film, The Punk Singer, a documentary about Kathleen Hanna, premiered at SXSW in 2013 and was acquired by IFC Films. In 2014, The Punk Singer received a theatrical release in 121 American cities and has screened around the world. Anderson won the Lena Sharpe Award for Persistence of Vision at SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival) the ARCA Best Director Award at Distrital Film Festival in Mexico City and several more.

Neil Goldberg is a New York based visual artist who is at work on his first book of writing, an experimental memoir. His video, photo, and mixed media work has been presented at The Museum of Modern Art, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Museum of the City of New York, and other institutions nationally and internationally. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Siena Art Institute, among others. Since 2013 he has taught at the Yale School of Art.